Summer Series

The 2024 Summer Series is now unveiled below!

Rules/general

+ The Summer Series is designed as a more accessible, more local, shorter-term, shorter-distance, lower-cost version of the Championship, held partly on Summer evenings, from late April to the end of August.

+ Aside from those seeking to win silverware/glassware for a Top Three finish in this contest (separate contests for M and F, but no age category prizes), there is a finisher medal for those that ‘complete’ the annual series.

The finisher medal from the 2021 Summer Series; this was a fair bit more ‘deluxe’ than usual as the SS represented the club’s main contest that year

+ To receive a Summer Series (SS) medal, you need to complete 6 out of 8 nominated SS races (as per the list below).

+ Full rules, scoring etc appear at 4 here.

+ Each year, the Series seeks to avoid (too many) clashes with the summer holiday season, and, with its 6-from-8 approach and the option of the time trial at any point in the season, provides good flexibility.

+ After discussion at the 2022 AGM, where it was tentatively proposed (but strongly rejected) to make the SS ‘more tarmac’, the SS remains a mixture of road, trail and mixed road/trail races.

+ Courses/races used over the last 10 years were these (showing how many needed to be completed each year; rules have altered over the years).

The 2024 races themselves (8)

RaceDateLink
Montrose parkrunSat 20th AprilNO ENTRY REQUIRED - details here
Thornhill 10KSunday 5th MayOPEN - details here
Milnathort Dash (~5 miles)Thurs 20th JuneNOT YET OPEN - details here
Falkirk parkrunSaturday 29th JuneNO ENTRY REQUIRED - details here
Crieff 10KPROBABLY Sun 7th JulyNOT YET OPEN - details of LAST YEAR
Graham Clark MemorialMid-August - PROBABLY Tues 13th AugustNOT YET OPEN - details of LAST YEAR
Cambus QuarterSun 25th AugustNOT YET OPEN - details of LAST YEAR
East Neuk 10KSunday 22nd or Sunday 29th SeptemberNOT YET OPEN - details of LAST YEAR

If a race is lost…

The rules allow for more ad hoc replacements than is allowed in the Championship. If a race is lost, we shall seek to find a replacement of similar length (if possible), preferably (but not necessarily) in Perthshire, and offer a minimum of 2 weeks of notice (and ideally more) for this. Members will be notified by email/here and on the website/FB page.

Results from previous years

2023

2022

2021 (based on seven Strava time trials owing to COVID-19)

2020 not held owing to COVID-19

2019 Men Ladies

2018 Men Ladies

2017 Men Ladies

2016 Men Ladies

2015 Men Ladies

2014 Men Ladies

2013 Men Ladies